Neowin News Feed for: Knocks

Explosion at theplanet knocks out 9000 servers

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:08:19 +0000

Neowins previous web servers host, ThePlanet based in Dallas Texas, suffered a major setback yesterday as an electrical fire allegedly caused an explosion, knocking out around 9000 of their customers hosted websites. Marcus Langenveld writes:... Read more...

Windows Vista Testing: The School of Hard Knocks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:33:08 +0000

Some time this month, if Microsoft sticks to schedule, the company will deliver its latest test build of Windows Vista to hundreds of thousands of testers. Seems like a perfect time to contemplate how well... Read more...

AMD Knocks Intel on Power

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:34:59 +0000

AMD is fighting the power. Even with Intel Corp.'s new focus on delivering higher processor performance per watt of energy, unveiled here at its fall Intel Developer Forum, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. maintains that its... Read more...

New Trojan Knocks Out Symbian Phones

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:10:41 +0000

Users of Symbian Series 60 smart phones should be aware of a new Trojan horse that, if not removed within one hour, can cause complete data loss in their wireless devices, security experts warn. Several... Read more...

Microsoft Rumour Knocks Apple Shares Down

Joe Cashman — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:09:42 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed a report made by Cnet that they intend to start a subscription based online music service. "We are actively investigating the subscription model," a Microsoft spokeswoman said. Christine Andrews, product manager in... Read more...

Digital-rights group knocks 'trusted' PCs

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 06:41:30 +0000

A high-profile digital civil liberties group is criticizing a component of the "trusted computing" technology promoted by Microsoft, IBM and other technology companies, calling the feature a threat to computer users. The paper, which... Read more...